KILLARNEY this week saw Say Goodbye make an impressive chase debut in a race won last year by Gin On Lime, a subsequent Grade 3 winner. The Donie Sheahan Memorial Irish EBF Mares Beginners Chase could be the starting point for a good career over the larger obstacles for this year’s winner, a six-year-old daughter of Getaway (Monsun).

Getting blacktype winning daughters comes readily to Getaway, and eight of his 17 winners of listed or graded National Hunt races to date are fillies or mares. Could Say Goodbye level that score for the girls? A winner over hurdles when Sneezy Foster held the licence at Cullentra, Say Goodbye was runner-up to Party Central in the Grade B Paddy Mullins Mares Hurdle at the Dublin Racing Festival.